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by Joseph O'Neill (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd (6 May 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007269064
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007269068
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (98 customer reviews)
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'Deal(ing) with 9/11 far more subtly and indirectly than recent novels...(there is) a rare combination of ambition and humility.' --Literary Review

`This multi-faceted, poignant and considered novel, which...does something momentous: it evokes life for all of us.'
--Time Out

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'Great cricket novels can be counted on one hand...Netherland looks as if it may top the lot!'

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5.0 out of 5 stars it's not JUST cricket, 1 Jul 2009
By Susan E. Finch "Susan NYC" (NYC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Netherland (Paperback)

Netherland by Joseph O'Neil

I confess I read this book because I heard Obama was reading it. Little did I know I would be fascinated by this beautifully written novel about life, love, and, of all things...the game of cricket. O'Neil's brilliance is in his exquisite description of love and relationships. Using a game of cricket he describes what it is to truly "see" into the truth of a situation. He does this with a delicacy and intimacy that is tender and inspiring.

I am also inspired by Ariel and Shya Kanes brilliant works: Being Here: Modern Day Tales of Enlightenment, How to Create a Magical Relationship: The 3 Simple Ideas that Will Instantaneously Transform Your Love Lifeand Working on Yourself Doesn't Work: The 3 Simple Ideas That Will Instantaneously Transform Your Life. The Kane's are masters of seeing and sharing truth. For an enlightening read, O'Neill and the Kane's books are filled with radiance.
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110 of 127 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Wish I'd bought something different, 18 Jul 2008
By emma who reads a lot (London) - See all my reviews
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I feel almost apologetic about the fact that I never quite got "Netherland" - especially in the light of the other glowing reviews posted here. I bought it on the strength of the newspaper reviews, because it sounded like the kind of literary novel I really enjoy (Updike, Bellow etc).

But I found it really confusing. The fact that a novel about cricket has an ice-skater on the cover is perhaps a symbol of how oddly disjointed the events of the book are - and like many others writing here, I expected a bit of a mystery plot as the novel begins with a dead body - but no such luck.

I never really came to like or care about the reserved (and verging on pathetic, I sometimes wanted to scream) narrator Hans. I disliked his wife. I know it's lame and schoolgirly to talk about whether you "liked' characters but I just didn't really care what happened. And where other readers clearly found the elliptic writing and long sentences profoundly evocative, I just got muddled. The one saving grace was the subtlety of the falling-apart marriage and its strange journey back to wholeness: all in all I felt the book had the potential to be really good, but in the end I just found it slightly irritating.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Totally underwhelming!, 4 May 2009
By Dr. S. White "klein-gordon" (Belfast, UK) - See all my reviews
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Like many other reviewers, I read this book because of the fantastic praise it was getting and didn`t want to miss a great novel: I wouldn`t have done! Uninspiring and very dull man splits up from his family and meets a larger-than-life and actually rather unsavoury character. Some talk of setting up international cricket in New York. Nothing happens. Uninspiring and very dull man goes back to family. Er, that`s it. Yes, the writing is ok and there are one or two entertaining bits, but the total effect is severely underwhelming. I will have no difficulty waiting for Mr O`Neill`s next offering!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Boring, boring and more boring
What is this book about?? It is so disjointed with no plot and the main characters are pathetic
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2.0 out of 5 stars Dull and duller
Yet another novel about the slow disintegration of a middle class family, only with the gimmicks of cricket and 9/11 thrown in (though in the case of 9/11 it is only in the most... Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Fiction at the Crease
The novel won a great deal of critical praise and was longlisted for last year's Booker Prize, as well as being nominated one of the ten best novels of 2008 by The New York Times... Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Not Just Cricket
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill

Opening this book, O'Neill quotes visionary American poet Walt Whitman, though his own vision of America is more modest and dystopian. Read more
Published 1 month ago by A. R. Drenth

5.0 out of 5 stars superb novel
not having read any of the previous novels of O'Neill this is one book where the cover-recommendations are fully justified; a organically paced story of cultures coming together,... Read more
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2.0 out of 5 stars boys book
This was read due to a book club pick. All I can describe it as a boys book, meandering in the extreme. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars New York or Old Amsterdam?
The protagonist Hans seems to be an outsider wherever he goes, in NY because he is Dutch, in Holland as a child because his mother's a bit strange, and in his marriage (to an... Read more
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